Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Martin Van Creveld

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Martin Van Creveld

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Neil MacGregor

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Oswald Chambers

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.

Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Paul Conrad

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Peggy Noonan

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

Rob Bell

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Rob Bell

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

Ruskin Bond

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

Ram Dass

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Richard Feynman

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Richard Greenberg

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.

Richard Greenberg

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Robin Marantz Henig

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Robin Marantz Henig

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Randall Kennedy